Letter to Santa

 

My granddaughter Jooniebug just started kindergarten this year and has been blessed to have a wonderful teacher who she loves. Her teacher Ms. Connerly loves flamingos and she seems to love her kids even more.

Jooniebug missed school for a couple of days when Roxanna recently went into the hospital to give birth to Baby Brudder Cyrus. Roxanna communicated with Ms. Connerly during Jooniebug’s absence and Ms. Connerly told her that every time she saw Harper’s vacant school desk, she said a prayer for her and the family.  So, the love seems to be mutual. 

Well, Jooniebug wrote a letter to Santa a week or so ago. It was the very first letter that she has written to Santa and in it she asked Santa to bring her teacher Ms. Connerly a flamingo for Christmas. 

 

I have a habit of making little Christmas ornaments and thought that I would try to make Ms. Connerly a flamingo from Santa. 

After Cyrus’ birth, I took supplies with me when I visited with Roxanna for a few days to help out. While there, I made a little ornament for Ms. Connerly for Jooniebug to take to her. 

I explained to Jooniebug that Santa knew that I liked to make ornaments for her, and now Cyrus. Since, Santa makes his deliveries on Christmas Eve, he wanted Ms. Connerly to have the ornament early in time to put it on her Christmas tree. 

 

Santa asked me if I could be a special, temporary elf and make a flamingo ornament for Ms. Connerly to hang on her tree. I assured him that I would certainly try. He then asked if I would get Jooniebug to be a special temporary elf too and deliver it to Ms. Connerly before Christmas break. 

After explaining how Santa recruited me as a special, temporary elf and had asked me to recruit her too, she excitedly agreed! 

So this week, Jooniebug will complete her special, temporary elf assignment and she and I will go back to being just regular, everyday Jooniebug and Grannyma. Of course, Jooniebug is permanently special everyday!

 

Who knows, if Santa is happy with how we have fulfilled our special, temporary elf responsibilities, maybe he will recruit us again next year!

 

   

Jooniebug completes her special, temporary elf mission!